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Central index of merchant seamen [3] - containing more than 1.25 million merchant navy service record cards of people who served on British registered ships between 1918 and 1941. [ 4 ] Local authority records - covering Southampton City Council and its predecessors since 1199.
People educated at St Mary's College, Southampton (6 P) Pages in category "People from Southampton" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
The Southern Daily Echo, more commonly known as the Daily Echo or simply The Echo, is a regional tabloid newspaper based in Southampton, covering the county of Hampshire in the United Kingdom. The newspaper is owned by Newsquest , one of the largest publishers of local newspapers in the country, which is in turn owned by Gannett .
After: Southampton continued to work at full capacity to re-supply the Allied Forces on mainland Europe. 1944 12 July: The only flying bomb to hit Southampton lands in Sholing. 5 November: The last air raid takes place in Southampton. 1947 – 14 April: The RMS Queen Elizabeth runs aground on a sandbank just outside of Southampton.
Southampton was the departure point for the RMS Titanic [11] and home to 500 of the people who perished on board. [12] The Spitfire was built in the city [13] and Southampton has a strong association with the Mayflower, being the departure point before the vessel was forced to return to Plymouth.
The latter had become fashionable for the gentry, who wanted to get away from the rapidly developing industrial area of Southampton and live in the nearby countryside. Sholing never existed as a village but a small hamlet of brick bungalow type cottages were built in the 1790s in the Botany Bay Road area.
Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England.The area has been settled since the Stone Age. Its history has been affected by its geographical location, on a major estuary on the English Channel coast with an unusual double high tide, and by its proximity to Winchester and London; the ancient and modern capitals of England.